Europeans Exploit PS2 Web Browser

Posted by simoniker on Thursday July 10, 2003 @07:31AM from the not-the-most-elegant-surfing-tool dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The BBC has an article on a gamer who's configured their Playstation 2 to act as a web browser for any site, not just those associated with PS2 games, although it seems to be an European-only option." While you can even run a PS2 version of Mozilla with the Playstation 2 Linux Kit, this exploit, for standalone PS2 consoles without a hard drive, works by re-assigning an external device IP option (apparently only available with the European network adaptor?) to a non-Sony website.

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Other ways to do this by bobthemonkey13 · 2003-07-10 07:46 · Score: 3, Interesting

I haven't tried it, but it seems to me that this could be accomplished by putting a DNS caching router machine between the PS2 and the internet, and then remapping the DNS for Sony's site over to the site mentioned in the article. This should work on American consoles, unless they don't have a Web browser at all. Of course, needing a router machine probably defeats the purpose of a standalone web browser.